> Do people write their own static site generators because they're bored, or because templating is always annoying and it's more fun to write your own than lear

> Do people write their own static site generators because they're bored, or because templating is always annoying and it's more fun to write your own than learn a new system? In my case [0] because I wanted to generate the site from a single Markdown file. I wrote a Perl program to accomplish this. Then I got bored and wrote a Python version as well. And it works, I have kept up posting to my blog [1] for 150+ days since it went live. [0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog [1] http://plurrrr.com/ http://plurrrr.com/